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Sergei's Virus

By avinashd

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Innovation304.18
Humor1523.41
Overall3463.44
Fun4613.23
Mood6472.96
Theme8642.84

Comments

redpanda_ua 2016-04-19 00:23

"Encrypted with ROT13 technology" "Sergei: nyet, antivirus is flagging your code!"
Humor would be 5/5

powersource 2016-04-19 01:12

I remove the print statements (both by erasing and commenting out) and click "Send to botnet" but nothing happens :(

avinashd 2016-04-19 01:15

Hey Powersource, fixed now. HTTPS issues :/

thecain 2016-04-19 01:16

Wow. I'm way too dumb for this.
Cool idea though.

jadernak 2016-04-19 02:16

I have to give is another try when my brain functions properly :) Clever idea nevertheless.

torcado194 2016-04-19 02:40

interesting idea! never seen a programming game in a ludum dare

norseware 2016-04-19 04:15

Interesting! I solved up to 3, and gave up... Nice idea though! The output was funny. Good work! :)

tater_hater 2016-04-19 04:21

was it hard debugging a game about debugging?

avinashd 2016-04-19 05:42

Tater_hater, you have no idea. It's a python script running inside javascript on a webpage loading a fake python module.

If I try this again, it's going to be lua next time :P

w1n5t0n 2016-04-19 05:53

This is by far the most interesting and different entry that I have seen, and it is probably the most creative entry in the competition.

ryusui 2016-04-19 09:17

Phew. I'm pretty decent with Python myself and I had to look up workarounds for some of the puzzles in here. Good times!

nextreality 2016-04-20 06:43

I liked the concept, simple code based editing, but oddly satisfying, good job!

andreasxx1 2016-04-20 06:46

Original Theme, good design. I had troubles scrolling up and down at the game-screen and web browser, scrolls all together so maybe a fullscreen option could be better, also for more natural gaming. I had fun with it, maybe a non programmer will not understand it xD.

skruffye 2016-04-20 15:46

Fantastic take on the theme. My brain is too asleep to properly solve these puzzles, but the innovation of concept and quality of execution are plain to see.
Good job! :)

mooncalf 2016-04-21 06:10

A lot about this impressed me, but it wasn't fun for me.

qualitycatgames 2016-04-21 06:20

i give... lol
nice concept, though

dread_lord369 2016-04-21 07:56

Loved it!

jin47 2016-04-21 08:17

Great "game"/programming riddles. Interesting take on the subject. good job.

seadads 2016-04-21 08:42

I love code puzzles, this was really cool! It was too hard for me, but I learned a little python, and had fun :D

phaix 2016-04-21 09:20

Funny idea. As Programmer i liked it, so i better not asking the Graphic artist :D

glaze_96 2016-04-21 09:39

Gonna get a friend who's a big python fan to play this with! Gonna let you know what we think when we finish it =)

krasse 2016-04-21 11:37

Ha ha, I'm not that good with Python, had to cheat a couple of times :)

wevel 2016-04-21 11:52

A very different idea, nice job

lereveur 2016-04-21 13:23

I love the programming challenge concept !
It took me a long time to fulfill all constraints, but I made it to the end (despite I'm a noob in Python), very good entry for me !

grooveman 2016-04-21 14:09

This is such a cool concept for a game, but it really feels like the kind of game that would benefit from a hint system. I understand enough coding logic and python syntax to get /what/ I should be doing, but not how. =(

Even if the hints were written elsewhere instead of in the game proper (so as not to break narrative), I think that would be an excellent finishing touch.

glaze_96 2016-04-21 17:34

Really great! Even though I couldn't get past task 2 even with google and a programming friend.

ijona 2016-04-22 11:46

Wow! I'm not a programmer at all, but I managed to solve two puzzles using some Python tutorials. This game was good for my self-esteem and therefore a lot of fun :D

fabraz 2016-04-22 15:13

Talk about a game that isn't for the mass market! :D But that's exactly what LD's are for, cool idea!

omarhuseynov011 2016-04-22 19:20

To be honest I'm not really big fan of python but I still liked this game :D

blinry 2016-04-22 22:04

Whoa, nice! I really enjoyed the first few levels! A built-in help system or something would have been helpful ;-)

khaos_fang 2016-04-23 15:57

Know few about python, but the concept is interesting.

fin_nolimit 2016-04-23 21:59

I've never used python before but that was really cool! Excellent work

dat_not_my_game 2016-04-24 08:21

Great programmer quest about fixing source code. Awesome!

gnerkus 2016-04-24 10:39

I got as far as task 5 and ran into an input error for task 6. The solution humbled me.

Thank you so much for this.

deltanegative 2016-04-24 11:54

Cool idea, although could be more engaging ;)

hunttis 2016-04-24 13:27

Ok, that was fun and funny :D

Novel use of the theme, nice implementation and funny too. Great work!

tmpxyz 2016-04-24 14:46

I like this, but from a 'game' perspective, this could only entertain a very small audience.

The solution makes me 'wow'.

But is this going to raise exception? I thought I would have to check the download length.

f(pl+rcv.download_chunk(cn), cn + len(" "), rcv)

asturk 2016-04-24 17:17

Thats a very new different idea and i liked it! Do a game about shaping a python code in order to fix random stuff is really something new here. good job!

mementogames 2016-04-25 01:06

Very interesting concept.
Nice take on the theme too.
Nice entry!

avinashd 2016-04-25 04:18

@tmpxyz: it does, but an exception is thrown when we run out of chunks left to download, at which point we just assume means that the download is over and continue (using the try/except).

A friend came up with that beautiful solution to task 6, so I take no credit for it :P

axoona 2016-04-27 14:28

well I've spent an hour on this game and I'm blocked on the third, Sergei says it's not working correctly but it's just impossible to debug without a debugger, my python skills are what they are...
It was fun (I spent an hour on this.. ;) but it's surely not a game for everyone!
anyway I really enjoyed it and it's an innovative approach to the theme

kerdelos 2016-04-29 13:40

The concept is interesting, I like having to tweak some code according to certain limitations. The only frustrating things is that you can not really run the code to checks its output or anything else, it feels a bit like working in the dark. Apart from the game is pleasant to play.

adipson 2016-04-30 08:41

original concept

geckoo1337 2016-05-01 20:42

Мне понравилось. Clever idea. reminds me this time when I developed some exploits using PHP. Well done ++

aaranos 2016-05-01 23:48

More of a learning tool than a game.

neilcorre2k6 2016-05-02 15:45

wow! that was a very awesome idea! :D haha, Python isn't actually my language, but that was pretty neat :D

raysandlazors 2016-05-02 22:17

I gave up at 4/6. I have nowhere near the required knowledge of this language, and at this point searching for answers at google has grown frustrating enough. Turns out Python does not have half of statements and constructs I was expecting. Humor is 11/10, but only for the programmers :P

quexd 2016-05-03 01:19

This game is only for the L33T very hard very fun. Great Job!

kairosxiii 2016-05-03 03:48

Wow, very cool concept and great take on the theme. Can't pass this game with my limited knowledge though, only made it to level 3 :(

mementogames 2016-05-03 12:12

Hi! You posted a comment in our game saying that we ripped off Portal 2 sounds, which is not true. Not cool, man. We recorded and edited the robot voices by ourselves (We used my voice which kinda have a strange-high-pitch going on already). We did took a look at tutorials to make it sound more Glados-ish. Thanks for your comments though.

cheshire 2016-05-05 08:20

Really good idea =)

b0pt1k 2016-05-05 11:15

I really really enjoy playing this game, haven't really seen a game like this before, some of it was quite hard, but good to think over. Great idea!

louspirit 2016-05-05 12:16

It makes my head overheating, but it is fun.

cliffracerx 2016-05-05 20:19

This is really funny and a brilliant idea. Only downside is feeling like a terrible programmer for not being able to make it past puzzle two. I've been doing this for years, dangit, I should be able to solve a simple while loop! :P

sharrackor 2016-05-05 20:25

Absolutely fantastic game, had a load of fun with this one :) perhaps a little bit short, I'd love to see more missions and challenges to complete, but what you have here is great by itself. Well done!

unlikelyrogue 2016-05-08 20:23

Ha, that was clever. A little too close to work though ;)

abuzreq 2016-05-08 20:46

That's amazing !
I haven't coded in python for long but got until removing the conditionals (and for some reason lambdas are not working :P)
I didn't play a game like this before and would love having a one for Java :P
(psst.. yes you! , do it if you know Java,please..!)

avinashd 2016-05-08 20:50

@abuzreq It'd be cool to have one for Java, but Java is strongly typed and also doesn't let you get away with the same types of crazy things that python lets you get away with! :P

dcolgan 2016-05-08 22:35

Awesome, first time I've seen a programming challenge on LD. Definitely requires some functional programming techniques. +10 for Haskell!

avinashd 2016-05-08 23:21

@dcolgan I wasn't too strong with functional programming myself, which is why I had to ask a friend of mine to help me with challenge 6 :P. Have you seen the solution he came up with (it's linked in the starting pop-up)? It's fantastic.

@abuzreq Guess what was posted on hackernews a couple of hours ago? https://www.javapoly.com/ :P

bulletsarepeopletoo 2016-05-09 00:33

My favorite entry of LD35... I laughed out loud when Sergei made his final request.

My only complaint is that the coding window can't be resized. By the end, I had a line over 200 characters long, and it was a little unwieldy to have to scroll to edit.

I want to see more games like this!